On a Monday morning in November 2010, six photographers in five cities around the world take their cameras to urban neighbourhoods where newcomers arrive. The photos flow into the PAPA website like a wave moving around the world. First from Bangladesh, five hours later from Rotterdam and Lagos – cities in the same time zone. Detroit and São Paulo complete the group another seven hours later. From the first week the photos and captions were projected on the windows of the cultural centre at the entrance to the neighbourhood in Rotterdam. The same will happen in other cities. In this way the inhabitants of the various newcomers neighbourhoods not only get a fresh perspective on their own lives but they also get to see how newcomers in other
cities live.
Migrationpapa is a PAPA project for Kosmopolis Rotterdam with the generous support of Hivos

Dhaka -
Dhaka Bangladesh ”Beri Band” the embankment around Dhaka city, where a lot of migrants from the villages end up staying. Once preparing meat is over, time to catch up with… Shahidul Alam –
Migrationpapa

Lagos -
Waiting wheelbarrow use for moving things for money at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. This has made it a hub for many new comers… Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa

Lagos -
Men who are mostly from northern Nigeria are off loading bags of rice into the wharehouse in Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. This has made… Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa

Lagos -
A taloring apprentice who recently migrated from the nothern Nigeria to Lagos sewing cloth at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for transtional trading. This has made it… Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa

Detroit -
Someone wrote that slogan on several burned out houses on Michigan Avenue in Detroit. Since the last factory shut down in the 1990s, most of the remaining residents moved out… Marcin Szczepanski –
Migrationpapa

Sao Paulo -
There is a fight in central São Paulo for the right to remain living there. The big companies want to ‘revitalise’, in other words, buy the buildings for ridiculously low… Ines Correa –
Migrationpapa

Detroit -
A pit-bull mix dog barks at a stranger in a Delray neighborhood in Detroit. Pit bulls are common in the city; they are feared for their jaw strength and admired… Marcin Szczepanski –
Migrationpapa

Lagos -
A young boy who recently migrated from the nothern Nigeria to Lagos is assisting and learning the business of legiums at the Iddo terminus market. The market is popular for… Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa

Dhaka -
With the upper floors of the bazaar demolished, light and rain come through the new openings. Plastic sheets of different colours make up the impromptu rooftop. Nice colours and space… Shahidul Alam –
Migrationpapa

Dhaka -
“Beri Band” the embankment around Dhaka city, where a lot of migrants from the villages end up staying. The photograph of the two men might have sexual overtones in other… Shahidul Alam –
Migrationpapa

Lagos -
Multitude of people during the prayers session of the Mountain of Fire and Miracle church (MFM) , in their annual spiritual deliverance and miracle service. In Nigeria, means for daily living… Andrew Esiebo –
Migrationpapa

Dhaka -
Gas fire: Throughout Bangladesh is the ubiquitous tea stall selling sweet thick tea. This is where politics, love and the ways of the world are discussed. The fire under a… Shahidul Alam –
Migrationpapa

Rotterdam -
A man transports scrap metal with his ship from one harbour to another. He says his hands are resistant to poison and acid. His ships’ name is De Volharding (Perseverance)… Nies Medema –
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Rotterdam -
Inside the Surinamese shop there is another shop a videotheque, your special supplier of Bollywood CDs and DVDs. On the yellow sign on the ceiling it says ‘Do not bring… Lino Hellings –
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Rotterdam -
Father Sheikh (born in Pakistan) started his mini-supermarket 8 years ago. Daughter Maawish (born in Rotterdam) wanted to be a model when she was younger, but is happy to work… Nies Medema –
Migrationpapa